How is the 34/reset?

Do you do a recap to see how many on duty hours you use each day and have left on your 70 ? If you work 14 hours but log 3 off duty only 11 count toward your 70.

 

I understand that if you stop for the day and still have hours left you can use them later. I'm talking more about those who log on/off all day through out the day. If I start my day at 6 and end at 6 I'll still have 2 hours somewhere. But If I start at 6 and stop at 8 but was stuck at a shipper for two hours I can't use those 2 hours later there just lost.

Hence the reason people say " I hate waiting at the shippers, it costs me hours"

 

I asked if you did a recap . Some logs have a column on the side where you total the hours for each line . Only the time on lines 3 and 4 count toward your 70 .

 

once you go on duty you have 14 hours to drive 11. nothing can pause the 14 hour. if you go on duty at 7am you cannot drive after 9pm, 14 hours.

your 70 hour clock, time from on duty and driving line is deducted from this.

so even though your 14 hour clock started, when you are not driving or in the jumpseat you go off duty or sleeper to keep time from being deducted from your seventy.

and yes only thing that resets your 14 hour is a 10 hour break or a split sleeper, which we wont get into. and the only thing to reset your seventy is a 34 hour reset.

we're just trying to stress that you need to savetime on your 70 to give you more driving time and more miles and more money, when you get driving and do it it makes more sense. the new mcp200 qualcomms really help too

 

Your 14 and your 70 are two different things. I can drive an hour, be on duty an hour and burn my entire 14 in a day neing off suty or in SB... but onlt the two hours, one from line 3 and one from line 4 go against my 70.

 

Your 14 hour clock is a daily clock and is not deducted off your 70 clock.

You are correct, once you start it, you can't stop it unless you do an 8/2 split. Which is a whole other topic.

But you can go off-duty while your 14-hour clock is running to save time on the 70-hour clock.

 

The 14 hour clock is different from the 70 hour clock. They both talk about on duty but they are two very different things.

If you begin your day at 7 AM, your day must end by 2100 or 9 PM. That is your 14 hour clock. It can be extended once a week to 16 hours in some cases. But that is not important for this.

If you start at 7 am drive 1 hour to your customer and he takes 7 hours to load you. You then drive 4 hours to your receiver and they take until 9 PM to unload you. You are done with your 14 hour day. But if you have logged off duty time while you are being loaded and unloaded, you have only used 5 hours (your driving time) off your 70 hour clock. Them be the facts, jack. I know that you have to show pre and post trip. But you do not have to show loading and unloading time as on duty if you do not have duties with the loading or unloading. You can log it as duty but you will end up doing a reset while I am driving and making money.

 

If you are running hard enough you actually will make more money by using up your 70 and taking a reset then running off of recap. But not wasting your on duty time is critical

 

Almost 1000 miles further in a 65 mph governed truck.

I know after 14 days out, I have come home with almost 7900 miles on the trip. I was a tired cookie when I got home too.

Burning only 8.75 hour days to be able to run solid for those same 14 days you'd be lucky to get 6800 miles in.

 

Not to mention I would much rather run my keister off for 6 days and take a day and a half off then run 14 straight off of recap. Keeps me from burning out